The Center for Fiction's 2015 Annual Benefit and Awards Dinner was a huge success! Over 300 people attended the event on December 8th at The Metropolitan Club, which included presentations by Joyce Carol Oates, Russell Banks, Anthony Bourdain, Charles Frazier, Perkins Award presenter Amy Tan, and 2014 First Novel Prize winner Tiphanie Yanique. The 2015 Maxwell E. Perkins Award was given to Daniel Halpern, and we announced the winner of this year's First Novel Prize, Viet Thanh Nguyen for The Sympathizer.